The reproduction of a cell through duplication of the genome and division of cytoplasm.

Threadlike, gene-carrying structure found in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell and most visible during mitosis and meiosis.

Creation of genetically identical offspring by a single parent, without participation of sperm and egg.

Creation of genetically unique offspring by fusion of two haploid sex cells (gametes).

Means of asexual reproduction in which a parent organism, often single cell, divides into two genetically identical individuals of about equal size.

Combination of DNA and proteins that constitutes eukaryotic chromosomes

One of the two identical parts of a duplicated chromosome in a eukaryotic cell

Region of a duplicated chromosome where two sister chromatids are joined.

Ordered sequence of events that extends from the time a eukaryotic cell is first formed from a dividing parent cell to its own division into two cells.

Period in eukaryotic cell cycle when the cell is not actually dividing and is where the cell spends the majority of its time.

Part of the cell cycle when the nucleus divides (mitosis), its chromosomes are distributed to daughter nuclei, and cytoplasm divides (cytokinesis) production two daughter cells.

Division of a single nucleus into two genetically identical nuclei.

Division of cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells.

First stage of mitosis, during which chromatin condenses to form structures visible with a light microscope and mitotic spindle begins to form, but nucleus is still intact.

Second stage of mitosis, during which nuclear envelope fragments and spindle microtubules attach to kinteochores of sister chromatids.

Third stage of mitosis, during which all cell’s duplicated chromosomes are lined up at imaginary plane equally between the poles of the mitotic spindle.

Fourth stage of mitosis, beginning when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of two poles of the cell.

Fifth and final stage of mitosis, during which daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell.

Football-shaped structure formed of microtubules and associated proteins that is involved in movement of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis.

Material in cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell that gives rise to microtubules; also called microtubule-organizing center.

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